We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.

The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true Will is, and to do it.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.